Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Multithreading for Multiprocessors to be
published in October 1996.

Recently, lightweight threads have received much attention in the area of
parallel and distributed computing as a mechanism for supporting various
levels of parallelism, for enabling dynamic load balancing, for supporting
virtual processors, and for providing latency tolerance capabilities. In
light of this increasing demand for lightweight threads, many new systems
have been designed to support threads in a parallel and distributed
environment, and several committees, including POSIX, are currently
working on standardization efforts for threads and thread-based computer
systems.

This special issue will include a set of original articles from both
industry and academia that represents the current state-of-the-art in
multithreaded multiprocessor systems for parallel and distributed
computing. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Authors should follow the JPDC manuscript format as described in the
Information for Authors at the end of each issue of JPDC. Five copies of
complete double-spaced manuscripts should be sent to either one of the two
co-guest editors by December 1, 1995. Electronic (PostScript only)
submissions are encouraged. Authors will be notified of the final
publication decision by March 1, 1996. Only original, unpublished work
will be considered; manuscripts resembling any previously published work
in a journal are unacceptable.